If you loved watching Jenna grow from a foundling of the Hame into a commander who can call on Skada and the goddess Alta, you’ll click with Harry Crewe’s arc in The Blue Sword. Taken into the desert by King Corlath, Harry learns the Damarian ways, trains with the King’s Riders, and wields the ancient blade Gonturan to defend her adopted people—much like Jenna claiming destiny beyond what a patriarchal world expects of her.

In Sister Light, Sister Dark, the ballads and tales of Alta shape how Jenna and Skada’s story is told. The Bear and the Nightingale similarly breathes with folklore: Vasya’s bond with domovoi and winter spirits echoes the way sacred stories inform real dangers and choices. If the myth-saturated feel of the Hame’s songs and the living presence of Alta drew you in, Vasya’s struggle to keep the old powers alive will feel wonderfully familiar.

Yolen’s intercut ballads, chronicles, and scholarly notes recast Jenna and Skada’s deeds through legend. Clarke does the same trick: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell layers its narrative with footnotes, faux histories, and fairy scholarship that constantly reframes events. If you enjoyed how the "records" of Alta’s worship keep nudging the meaning of Jenna’s battles, you’ll savor Clarke’s playful, lore-rich annotations shaping the story’s magic.

Jenna’s refusal to be boxed in by men’s laws—and her bond with Skada—mirrors Alanna of Trebond’s defiance as she disguises herself to train as a knight. In Alanna: The First Adventure, she battles bullies, duels alongside Prince Jonathan, and learns to control her Gift, much as Jenna learns to call her dark sister and answer Alta’s call. If you loved Jenna’s coming-of-age amid steel and sorcery, Alanna’s will hit the same sweet spot.

If the goddess Alta’s rites, the prophecy swirling around Jenna, and her struggle to choose her own path resonated, The Tombs of Atuan offers a kindred journey. Tenar, made Arha, serves the Nameless Ones in a labyrinthine temple until meeting Ged forces her to question the gods’ demands. As with Jenna weighing Alta’s will against the world’s cruelty, Tenar’s escape from a sacred role is a powerful, luminous act of selfhood.